kingchu@ttidca.TTI.COM (King-Hang Chu) (11/06/90)
Are there any metafonts supports on the IBMPC??? email address kingchu@ttidca.tti.com Thanks
teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) (11/06/90)
In article <21011@ttidca.TTI.COM> kingchu@ttidca.tti.com. (King-Hang Chu) writes: > >Are there any metafonts supports on the IBMPC??? > >email address kingchu@ttidca.tti.com Yes, there are five or six ports of Metafont to DOS, probably more. o PublicMF by Klaus Thull (reported on in TUGboat), o the one included in DOSTeX by Gary Biehle, o the one included in emTeX by Eberhard Mattes, o and sbMF, the one just released by Wayne Sullivan. The last two are the most up to date, as far as I know, i.e., MF version 2. Mattes's one comes with a useful control program called mfjob which reads a simple script language in which you can specify what fonts/sizes/magnifications/mode_defs/directories/PK conversions you want. Mfjob goes away and calls MF with all the right parameters. In simplistic tests I did a few weeks ago, sbMF was three times faster than the emTeX MF286, but there is a new, much faster MF with emTeX now. Still, if you wanted to do a big MF job, say to create *all* the CM family at 1270dpi, and were prepared to write a huge batch file to do it, to change all the GFs to PK, and to salt the PKs and TFMs away in the right places, then you would probably save quite a lot of time doing it with sbMF. Then there are the commercial ports: there's one from PTI, pcMF, and I expect there's one with TurboTeX from Kinch. And probably others. Please don't ask me where you get the above programs. Read TUGboat, TeXhax, UKTeX or the excellent "frequently asked questions" postings in comp.text.tex. Bye \bye, Dominik